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Trust …..Time

20220615_111025 this  pic.  yesterday.    her first bird.    it was a few months ago when i asked her about writing her name,   and she flatly and with no fanfare said   "im not into it".    Time has passed and now….she wants to draw a bird.  She wants to learn her letters,  write her name with both upper and lower case  Es.    she knows that learning her letters is the path into learning to Read.  a few months changed it all.  time.   Trust time.  

so CatherinE has responded.   Tomorrow,   7 am for me    10 am for her    We  will Sit.   i have mailed Maria but as she is over in another Time across the world,  haven't heard back.  For her it would be 4 pm.  

i will take more Time to write about it clearly and slowly but tonight,  just this.   5 minutes.   Just 5 minutes.   Stop what you are doing.  and imagine.   imagine Trust.  whatever the word might mean to you.  and there may be hundreds of meanings.   

there's nothing to this except to say to your own self that you are doing it.  To say to your own self,  i will stop and sit.  Or…even, what Ever?….i think…for Marti…maybe she will DANCE for 5 minutes?    What Ever.   How Ever  the sense of Trust rises in you.  I thought today….this Earth,  this Planet,  is  4.543 billion years old.  4.543 years of Evolution….arriving here.,  in this moment,  for me…sitting with a child drawing a bird for the first time.   I can trust this.   i heard in some off the radar news that women in Russia are taking to the streets asking Where Their Husbands Are…demanding to know.   Women in Russia. in the streets.    I can trust that.  in the last few days…many things i can Trust.   and i can press that Trust against my face.   

So….here  we go.   Every Thursday.  7 am pacific time…will refine this…but 

there is nothing to do but to sit in your own space.   nothing to say unless you want to and if you want to,  how great that would be.   Say     i am sitting .    here …whereEver you are….so We can get a sense of who WE are….like those little pulses of light on Jude's old blog…that planet,  pulsing    but if it's just a few of us that is also sheer Happiness for me….Sangha.  Community.  

thank you Maria

thank you CatherinE

love and love and just Big Love

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26 responses to “Trust …..Time”

  1. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    9am MN time. Alarm is set.

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    7am your time is midnight here
    Trust
    namaste

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Just so serendipitous because it will be 6 am here and I am always out in the patio, greeting the day so this will be as if I had always done so…and YES, sometimes, I dance a little, sometimes, I do a wee walkabout, checking on my plant people, usually, I sit in my green cushioned patio chair, take some deep breaths, listen to birdsong and watch the soft winds on the apple tree.
    I will be with all of you…

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Sorry, I got the WRONG time. It will be 8am here in New Mexico instead of 6am, so that will change it for me but I will do my best to stop and hold for 5 min. Once I sit the first time, for I will sit outside, it will become a habit…

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  5. jude Avatar
    jude

    garden watering time…

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  6. Angie Avatar
    Angie

    Noting the time on the East Coast so I can join in.

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  7. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    I’ll be there! Thank you, Grace.

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  8. Margery Avatar
    Margery

    I checked my email too late to join at the appointed hour, but after reading the post I immediately went into the garden and sat..and…sat & found it was, after all, the Right time. So perfect — discovering new nuances of Trust and feeling so connected to you all. Thank you.

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  9. joanne in Maine Avatar
    joanne in Maine

    I’m 39 minutes late but will start now……..

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  10. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    A very different experience from what I had thought because: I have my spot outside, like to sit, every morning, quiet, natural sounds, soft breeze, heat doesn’t kick in until afternoon, so good to empty self, and let thoughts come in. I do all of this before 7 am.
    But 8am is the time for this trust meditation so out I went to sit in my chair only to find that my next door neighbor, Michael, was out with his 7 yr old son, Rowan, throwing a football, running, laughing, shouting and I simply could not quiet my mind: As I started to feel irritated, I also thought about what I know about this young family.
    How, Stephanie, Rowan’s Mom, came to me one afternoon to apologize for her son’s loudness, I laughed and told her that I was the GrandMa of a boy so I knew loudness and told her not to worry. She told me that Rowan is very b4right but he is also on the spectrum, is what she referred to as a high functioning autistic; how he has a need for routines, sameness to the start of every day and that routine begins, while he waits for the bus that picks him up to take him to his special school, with his Dad running and tossing a football to him every morning. How Rowan likes to think he is a Lobo, the football team for UNM.
    I have heard Rowan and his Dad before, and his laughter, makes me smile but today, I was focused on quiet and so I began to feel a little irritated at the disruption of my 5 minutes of quiet but then my feelings changed because of the word TRUST.
    How this Dad is doing all he can, trusting in the routine that his little boy needs, to ensure his day is a good one. How Rowan trusts that his Dad will engage in his familiar play before school and how this little family, places their trust in doing all they can to help their son.
    So while this was not what I thought I would get from my 5 communal minutes, it actually was more…a gift in the form of a lesson in seeing the many ways that love, caring and Trust build a family.

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  11. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    commUNITY

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    ahh. you are in Minnesota. You have traveled.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    are you awake?

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    the good thing is that it is 5 minutes

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and so…will you?

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Angie…Love…i know your intense necessity right now

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. We Will.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think its always the right time
    the nuances of Trust. I think they are Vast.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    love you for this

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and yes. how it can go. This is just
    Beauty FULL

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    so love you

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  22. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    it is Friday and I am watching the waves break along the shore of the Atlantic … next Thursday will be our first full day back in Texas … I will sit at 9:00

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  23. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    I was there with Old Man Crow’s spirit

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  24. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Grace (all), I’ve come here a few times already. The first time was after the fact. I’ve considered the time for me here, to join with all of you. 7AM is commute time for me and depending which shift I am working…it makes a difference where on the road I am. I could focus on leaving early, so I could pull over…but, there are many (most) places I would Not want to do that. As I write that I think…Mmm…is that the lesson in trust? Do I really feel okay placing (my) safety in the arms of ‘trust’. Today the answer is no. We’ll see what Thursday looks like. Perhaps my sitting with Trust will look like internal thoughts, radio off…although that doesn’t sound too safe either! ha.
    Big love to you.

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    maybe see what that’s like. 5 minutes, no radio. driving.

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    OR
    what if it could be BOTH, 7 am and 7 pm.???????????????????
    would 7 pm work?

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